Word: drank
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Drank a good deal of whiskey, trying to relax," he begins, and that prescription is followed through the 1940s and '50s. Occasional grace notes occur, but hangovers and revulsion are usually the order of the day: "I feel sick, disgusted with myself, despairing and obscene. I have a drink to pull myself together at half past eleven and begin my serious drinking at half past four." And: "Evening comes or even noon and some combination of nervous tensions obscures my memories of what whiskey costs me in the way of physical and intellectual well-being. I could very easily destroy...
...about the smaller Tahitian islands: you shouldn't drink the water there. Or at least, I shouldn't have. And neither should my mother, or the Canadians, because we all rapidly fell victim to a mysterious disease later tentatively identified as Dengue fever. (The Germans were spared because they drank only beer...
...renovated old public housing and moved in homeless families. No one anticipated the invisible quarantine: shunned by their neighbors, the families had no sense of community, no help for the problems that had put them on the streets in the first place. Many parents still had no jobs, still drank too much, still beat their kids. Within a year, some of the buildings had been looted or burned, and drug dealers were moving in. At city- council hearings, tenants testified repeatedly that rehabilitating the buildings was not enough. The city had to "rehab people...
...that liquor as merely a tax on the rich," he wrote. "No nation is drunken where wine is cheap. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey." Jefferson, alas, failed miserably to convert fellow citizens to his favorite beverage. Americans last year drank 23.5 gal. of beer and 26.6 gal. of coffee per capita but only 2.1 gal. of wine. As a result, although the U.S. ranks sixth among the world's wine-producing nations, it is 29th in terms of wine consumption...
Ninety-two percent of the men and 82 percent of the women who drank more than once a week had five or more drinks in a row at least once in a two-week period...